Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Lu Yongxiang was full of surprises, and hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "Thank you for your cultivation, my lord!"

Southern floods and northern droughts are the most common natural disasters in large areas of China over the years.At the same time, it is also the fuse of the cycle of chaos in ancient China.When the drought in the north was severe, thousands of miles of barren land, tens of millions of people left their homes and wandered around.Great floods in the south often sweep across the coast, destroying the entire army in cities and villages.But this time, a catastrophic flood occurred in northern China. Millions of people were displaced, countless houses collapsed, and were swept away by the flood. China is facing the biggest challenge since the founding of the empire!

At the same time, shortly after the financial turmoil on Wall Street subsided, news came from San Francisco that at around 4:18 am on April 5, 12, the Richter scale was 7.8, and the epicenter was located on the San Andreas fault near San Francisco. superior.The quake's force was felt from Oregon to Los Angeles, California, and even as far inland as Nevada.The earthquake and subsequent fires wreaked havoc on San Francisco, arguably one of the worst natural disasters to hit a major city in U.S. history.At that time, government officials worried that if the real death toll was announced, it might cause land prices to fall and affect the severely damaged San Francisco City Hall, so the fabricated death toll was only 478.However, according to Zhao Bingjun's military information network conservatively estimated that the death toll was more than 3000, and it may even be as high as 6000.Most of the casualties were concentrated in San Francisco, while about 189 people were killed in the rest of the San Francisco Bay Area.Santa Rosa, San Jose and Stanford University were also severely damaged. About 40 to 22.5 people are homeless out of a population of 30, and about half of those refugees left the Bay Area for Oakland.

The local San Francisco Express newspaper described makeshift tents strewn across Golden Gate Park, Panhandle Park, and beaches from Ingleside to North Beach.According to the analysis made by Chinese statistical experts afterwards, the loss caused by the earthquake is estimated to be as high as 4 million US dollars.

What was even more frightening was that a fire broke out shortly after the earthquake, making San Francisco even worse after the earthquake.The ensuing fires caused even greater property damage than the massive earthquake and subsequent aftershocks.Several fires broke out in the city, some caused by ruptured natural gas pipelines caused by the earthquake, others by arson, or by bonfires in makeshift tents.Because insurance companies only pay for fire damage and not earthquake damage, some homeowners set fire to their quake-damaged homes to recover.U.S. Army Information Corps Capt. Leonard Weldman reported that a firefighter told him that nearby residents were burning their houses.Because they were told that the house damaged by the earthquake will not be compensated unless the house is also damaged by fire.In the city center, several similar fires mingled into one larger fire.At that time, people who mentioned other places in the reporter's report should understand that it was not a fire in some places in San Francisco, but that the entire city of San Francisco was shrouded in fire.The fire eventually destroyed more than 500 buildings on Yunes Avenue in downtown.Yunes Boulevard is a major artery that divides San Francisco in two and leads directly to the coast of San Francisco.

The fire burned for three days and three nights, and everything in an area of ​​about 8 square kilometers was destroyed.Under the double blow of fire and earthquake, San Francisco experienced an unprecedented catastrophe.Since then, San Francisco has also experienced other earthquakes, but the disaster that occurred at the beginning of the last century is the biggest nightmare for San Francisco people in the past 100 years.

There were erroneous reports at the time that the mayor had declared martial law.In fact, the mayor only issued an order allowing police and soldiers to shoot looters on the spot.In all, about 500 people were shot and wounded.The government also tried its best to control the fire. They used the method of blowing up buildings on the edge of the fire zone to create isolation zones, but contrary to expectations, gunpowder often did not destroy buildings but caused fires.The earthquake was so violent that houses inside and outside the urban area collapsed one after another like a deck of cards.Although the housing structure in San Francisco is different from that of Tokyo in the past, it also caused fires when an earthquake occurred. At that time, more than 50 places in the city suddenly caught fire.Brave firefighters rushed to the scene at the risk of collapse of houses on both sides. They turned on the faucets to put out the flames, but no water came out.Only then did people notice that all the * underground water pipes buried in the ground were broken.The situation underground, like the surface, was a mess.The destructive force originally came from the ground, and people should have thought about it long ago.Because the water supply system is still paralyzed, the fire department has very limited resources to use.The desperate firefighters were helpless. Seeing that the fire was burning more and more fiercely, they had to use the gaps in the street to block the fire desperately, trying to confine the fire to a few blocks and prevent it from spreading outward.However, there are too many fires in the city and too few firefighters, so it is impossible to get what you want.The fire finally got out of control, and the flames jumped across the narrow street, quickly licked the opposite block, and spread to other places.The fire burned for three days and three nights, engulfing an urban area of ​​about 10 square kilometers.The firefighters made up their minds, gritted their teeth and used gunpowder to blow up a wide fire zone around the fire area, and finally controlled the fire, preventing San Francisco from being completely burned down like Tokyo 17 years later.

After the disaster, the U.S. Army built 5 redwood and fir relief homes.Relief housing is divided into 610 districts and built similarly, and then rented out to people for $11 a month until their homes are rebuilt.These relief houses are all grass green, on the one hand to coordinate with the surrounding environment, and on the other hand because the army has a lot of green paint on hand.The maximum number of people admitted to these relief houses was as high as 2.But by 16, most people had moved out of the relief housing.These relief homes were then reused as garages, warehouses, or shops.When the eyes of the world were on the disaster of the San Francisco Earthquake, the Yangtze River Basin in southern China actually suffered a flood that caused far more casualties than the San Francisco Earthquake in the United States.

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After Zhao Bingjun reported the situation, he thought that the emperor would be overjoyed, but after a long silence, Guan Xuqing said, "I will send power to Roosevelt immediately in my name. I express my regret for the San Francisco earthquake. As long as the US side needs , China will send a rescue team of the highest level to San Francisco at any time to help with disaster relief."

Zhao Bingjun was stunned: "Your Majesty, don't Americans deserve this kind of retribution? Why do we send aid?"

Guan Xuqing sneered and said: "What do you know? This is called a big country gesture, and it is also for others to see. We are now facing severe floods. We do this to show our gesture. In the future, countries around the world will continue to provide assistance. "

Zhao Bingjun asked suspiciously: "Your Majesty, is this really possible?"

Guan Xuqing's face sank, "When did you become so nonsense, just follow the order, I don't like people who ask questions."

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Ever since the catastrophic disaster occurred in the Yellow River, Guan Xuqing has been paying attention to the reports of the world media on this aspect. After the continuous spring rain in spring and summer, the flood suddenly broke out.The Yellow River was flooded, and many dams in six northern provinces collapsed. The floods spread to dozens of counties and villages. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed in the floods. After the floods, more than 10 million people were left homeless.In fact, this is a catastrophic natural disaster worse than the San Francisco earthquake.

What shocked Guan Xuqing was that the world's media mainly focused on the San Francisco earthquake, and did not pay attention to the floods in China. There were only a few words to describe the flood disaster that caused millions of casualties.Even the newspapers in many major Western countries did not mention it.When it comes to disasters, it is only a general reference to another flood in northern China.

"The flood of the Yellow River caused millions of casualties, and 400 million people were left homeless. However, why not only the international attention was not paid much attention, but even the domestic news was attracted by those political news, reformists and revolutionaries' political controversy news. Attractive? The news industry that even reported a strike of female workers is much wider than the news about the disaster?" Guan Xuqing felt seriously disappointed.

Wu Tongju had already been ordered to control the river, and within a week, the news that came back was worrying.

In the area of ​​the two lakes, "up and down the coast, the lives and properties of the residents were wiped out, and there was a vast ocean for hundreds of miles"!Henan is the worst, in fact, there are severe floods all over the south.

Jiangsu's "flooded area covers eight prefectures and one prefecture. In the north of the Yangtze River, Xu, Hai, and Huai'an are the most severely affected, and there are especially many refugees."

At the turn of spring and summer in Anhui, it rained for more than 60 days, and mountain torrents broke out. The Huai, Si, Sha, Ru, and other rivers swelled at the same time. There were four to fifty people a day, some of them threw themselves into the river with their families, men and women, some of them fell to their deaths on the way out of the country, and they stared at each other, it was unbearable to hear about it.”

The torrential rain in Shandong was like pouring, the river swelled and overflowed, the lake was flooded backwards, and the scope of the flood was extremely wide.Jinan Prefecture is particularly affected by the disaster.

Guan Xuqing put down the booklet, sighed a long time, and said to Yang Shenxiu, the Minister of Agriculture and Water Resources: "Since ancient times, floods have plagued life for a lifetime, and the number of refugees everywhere has skyrocketed. In this way, not only the victims cannot receive effective relief, but the large population flow will also lead to local social problems. The order is chaotic, and this matter must be investigated. No matter what method you use, you must hurry up to make temporary tents for disaster relief. It is best to rush to make them on the spot and send them to the disaster area for emergency assistance. We must not let the disaster victims live in chaos After the tents are set up, it is up to the local authorities to plan the resettlement areas for the disaster victims in various places.”

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Guan Xuqing said to Li Zhen again: "The Ministry of Finance will allocate special funds to relieve the people in the disaster-stricken areas. This money must be earmarked for special purposes, and a special government office will be assigned to allocate it. I just want to make it clear to you that this money will not matter No one can embezzle it without permission, and it must be distributed to the disaster area in a timely and full amount, and the Ministry of Finance will send special personnel to supervise the distribution of money and food and relief matters in various places."

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"People from the Suzheng Hall should stop staying in the capital. You should send people to various places to supervise the use and distribution of money and food. If anyone dares to use this money and food without permission, they will be killed without mercy!"

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Guan Xuqing said to Feng Xianghua: "In the name of the Ministry of the Army, immediately issue an order to the troops stationed in the disaster-stricken areas to dispatch troops to the disaster-stricken areas for rescue. The soldiers and civilians must work together to minimize the losses of this disaster. Remember, this The catastrophe of the Yellow River is war, and anyone who dares to be afraid to move forward will follow the military law and will not be tolerated!"

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Guan Xuqing also said to Sun Wen, the Minister of Health: "After a major disaster, there will be a major epidemic. The Ministry of Health must immediately come up with a medical rescue plan for me, and at the same time, immediately dispatch experienced medical rescue personnel from various places to go to various places. To carry out medical assistance in the disaster area, the epidemic must not be allowed to spread on a large scale, otherwise you are asking me!"

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Guan Xuqing's eyes flickered, he looked at Yang Du, Minister of Culture, and said, "I can see from the newspapers these days that it is also a catastrophe. The San Francisco earthquake can't be compared to our country's once-in-a-century flood. I am very displeased to focus on the United States. From now on, the media stations of the Empire around the world will use their propaganda machines to track and report the disaster in our country, and call on all countries in the world to lend a helping hand to The people in the disaster-stricken areas in China provide help. Our country has already made a gesture of assistance to San Francisco, the United States, and I believe that countries around the world will never sit idly by for this more ferocious disaster in our country."

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Guan Xuqing said slowly: "After this court meeting, I will launch a nationwide donation campaign. I will distribute a report to the government offices in various places, and I will widely mobilize industry and commerce to donate money and materials to the disaster-stricken areas. Ministry of Internal Affairs, listen, I will express As a gesture, first set aside 100 million yuan from internal funds for disaster relief, and then start with the royal family in Beijing, and every family registration will give me a sum of money, and then expand to senior officials in Beijing and local officials People and others. This is a sum of conscience money, which is managed by the Ministry of Finance and is responsible for distributing it.”

Guan Xuqing said sternly: "Dear dear friends, as the saying goes, it is difficult to rejuvenate the country. I hope that you can help each other and resist this catastrophe together. The empire is in sight, I am in hope, and the people are in hope!"

"Your servants are honored to obey the holy orders!"

After the imperial meeting, the various ministries acted urgently according to the emperor's decree, and all localities were rushing to make tents and disaster relief tools. Within three days, the first batch of tents were distributed to the residents in the disaster area one after another.At the same time, the Ministry of Health urgently dispatched a group of medical rescue personnel from various places to go to the disaster-stricken areas to carry out medical assistance.The first special fund of 5000 million yuan allocated by the Ministry of Finance also arrived in the hardest-hit areas in Henan five days later.All provinces have opened grain stores to supply grain and rice to the resettlement sites.Due to the adoption of these effective measures, the victims of disasters in various places have been properly resettled. However, due to the large number of victims, it was not possible to resettle all of them for a while. In some places, famine has already occurred, and starving and dying are everywhere.Guan Xuqing issued two imperial decrees in succession, ordering the provinces to raise funds on the spot to solve the resettlement problem of the victims. In any case, there should be no riots among the hungry people, otherwise they will be severely punished.Officials from all over the country were photographed in Huangwei. Some were unable to resettle the victims, so they simply vacated the office to let the victims stay temporarily. In the face of this catastrophe, there will be no human favor at all, and most of those who are ineffective in handling affairs, or even greedy for public funds, will be executed on the spot.

For a moment, the officialdom was shrouded in a thick layer of murderous intent. In front of the rumbling Tianwei, who would dare to do things with all their heart and soul.

As soon as the news that the emperor took the lead in donating money came out, the whole country was shaken. Merchants from all over the country have donated huge sums of money to the disaster-stricken area. Since the world issued the appeal, there have been very few responses from various countries, and it seems that they are not very concerned about the disaster that happened in China.On this day, when Guan Xuqing was worried about this matter, Li Zhen came to see him, and after reporting the fundraising and other matters to the emperor, Guan Xuqing thought that Li Zhenzou had finished the report, and waved his hand wearily, meaning to kneel down.

Seeing the emperor's exhausted expression, Li Zhen couldn't help feeling sour, and said, "Your Majesty, Xu Tuzhi for disaster relief, your majesty still wants...to repay the dragon body."

Guan Xuqing nodded: "I know your sympathy, but the flood has caused such a huge loss, millions of people have been displaced, and the money from the court cannot be supplied. How can I not be in a hurry."

Li Zhen's face froze and he said: "I blame all the officials for their incompetence... for making the emperor feel tired and exhausted, my minister..."

"Forget it, these days, I can see clearly that you are very diligent in doing things, and I am very pleased. You are right, Xu Tuzhi, you should take care of your health for disaster relief. Once your body collapses, I will still rely heavily on you. who."

Li Zhen's eyes turned red, and his voice choked up: "Thank you, Your Majesty... for your kindness."

"Okay, I'm tired, you can kneel down first."

Li Zhen was about to step back when he suddenly remembered something, he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, I still have something to say."

"what's up?"

"There is a Jin merchant named Qiao Zhiyong, has the emperor heard of it?"

"Oh, I know this person, what's wrong?"

"He has made a feat!"

"Oh? What feat?"

"Today, Shanxi sent a telegram, saying that Qiao Zhiyong went bankrupt and donated 1 million yuan to the disaster-stricken areas in Shanxi!"

"Really? Is there such a thing?" Guan Xuqing immediately cheered up and sat up straight.

"Your majesty, that's not enough. Under the leadership of Qiao Zhiyong, the shopkeepers of the top ten ticket offices in Shanxi donated generously. In just one day, they raised nearly 5 million yuan for disaster relief. This time, the disaster fund has suddenly become abundant.”

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"Okay!" Guan Xuqing suddenly stood up, and said excitedly: "Immediately let the imperial media report on this righteous deed. I believe that Qiao Zhiyong has set a good example for the industrialists and businessmen of the empire!"

"Qiao Zhiyong is really a rare patriot. He not only gave all his belongings, but also brought his wife, children and the whole family to the disaster area to help in the disaster relief. This is the first time he has seen such a big businessman."

Guan Xuqing nodded: "Qiao Zhiyong, great job! I remember this person, and I will definitely meet him in person when I have a chance."